Samantha Jade glad to be home for Telethon

One day to go until Telethon

VideoStars from across the country are due to fly into Perth today for Telethon

After spending much of the past few years abroad, Samantha Jade is back to officially calling Australia home.

The Perth-raised songbird, who won The X Factor five years ago, lived in Los Angeles and more recently did a stint in London but got to the point where she missed her native country too much.

Now based in Sydney full time, Jade is gearing up for the release of her third album in January but has made a trip back to WA to perform at this weekend’s 50th anniversary of Telethon, which starts today at 6.30pm on Seven/GWN7.

While the 30-year-old is grateful for the time she spent overseas, she is thrilled to be Down Under once again.

Camera IconSamantha Jade is happy to be home.Picture: WireImage

“It was always a dream of mine to go over (to London) and live so I am glad I got that out of my system,” Jade told AAA Weekend.

“I did my big European holiday and now I have moved back home to Australia. I had these goals before I was 30 so I am happy I have ticked them off.”

A Telethon veteran, Jade has participated in the event seven times and said she had countless fun memories from past years.

“The year I opened, just before we were about to go to air we were all freaking out and all of a sudden my in-ears, where I got my sound from, cut out,” the singer laughed.

“They were doing the ‘Five, four, three, two ... ’ and I thought, I am just going to have to do this. I couldn’t hear myself and it was so nerve-racking but it didn’t matter.”

While Jade would not give too much away about her upcoming album, she hinted that it may not have the same sound her fans were used to.